Monthly Archives: August 2008

Where have all the bootstrappers gone?

August 29, 2008 – 1:47 pm

Sramana Mitra wrote a great article on Forbes asking why there aren’t more bootstrappers. And asserting that bootstrappers can help America out of our current economic funk. She raises an important question – Why don’t we have more bootstrappers? Why are so many entrepreneurs interested in raising VC funds – especially for ultra-light web startups [...]

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Find a niche

August 28, 2008 – 5:48 pm

Pretty simple rule right? Well, easy to say (and many people do) but tough to do. I’ve been doing a fair amount of research in the online education/learning space and I ran across this techcrunch post on a new ‘social learning’ website – Learnhub. Another learning website was mentioned – Edufire. These two sites illustrate [...]

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NY Times does video right

August 27, 2008 – 10:31 am

Take a look at the NY Times video of Hillary Clinton’s DNC speech: http://tinyurl.com/6gf9am This is how to do video on the web: A full transcript that is clickable and as well as sections that let the user click their way to watching the most interesting parts of the speech. I like this because I [...]

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Citigroup gets green cred

August 21, 2008 – 3:29 pm

More data to support that going green is not only good for a firm’s expenses, it’s also a great way to gain [green] credibility from your customers. I recently switched to paperless statements on my citigroup credit card (I know I should have done this months ago), and this is the message Citigroup sent back [...]

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Keeping options open

August 14, 2008 – 10:01 am

An update to my post about focusing your business on a niche product or service – why is this so hard? One explanation is that all of us like to keep our options open. But, even when it may ultimately hurt us? Yes, according to Dan Ariely (a behavioral economist at MIT). Take a look [...]

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Which business are you in?

August 13, 2008 – 12:14 pm

One of the bad habits you pick up when you spend too much time in meetings as opposed to doing work is speaking management jargon. Have you ever found yourself saying ‘Core competencies’ or ‘synergies’? Management gurus constantly tell us to focus on our core competencies and outsource the rest. While I think this certainly [...]

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